THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 20

THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

(Original.) .".'."■ . It\ a large city, there otf.ce lived a clever little girl called Rosa' Edward. Rosa was twelve years • old, and- her father was dead. He had been dead for some years, and when he died, all he left Rosa and her mother was a little four-roomed cottage. ■ ■ Rosa loved working out crossword puzzles, but she did not get any prizes, as she did not send them in. » One day Rosa asked (her mother if she might buy a penny newspaper, to sco the crossword puzzle result. Rosa had worked one out about a fortnight ago, and she wanted to see if her answers were correct. When she took the newspaper home, she saw that sho had worked hers correctly. Rosa showed her mother, so her mother said that the next competition that came along, if Rosa liked, sho .could try to win the prize. Tho puzzle soon came. Rosa worked it out, and when she had'finished, deckled to put it in an envelope. "Dou'tforget to look it over," warned Rosa's mother. Then she sealed it up, and posted it. . Tho prize was a large one, but Rosa Said she knew she would not get it. [ Nobody would know who 'had won tho prize' until July 31. Rosa had forgotten all about it in a week's time. ' . , At the end of tho month Rosa was surprised to see the postman come up tho path with a letter for her. When she road it, sho gavo a gasp of delight. It was a letter from the Editor, saying sho had won five hundred pounds. When Rosa's mother came home, Rosa gave her tho letter,1 because she was too excited to tell her. Tho next morning, Rosa's name ,Avas on the placards all over the town. Rosa and her mother did not want to shift out of their comfortable little home, so they, bought plenty of new clothes, and .■put the rest of the jnpuey in tho bank. - ... • Exactly an hour later, a. man knocked on the door, -ami Rosa was surprised to. Sco her mother rush into thomaii's arms. "Jack! Oh, Jack!" she said. She then told Rosa that.this man w«s Rosa's "Uncle Jack, who had been reported missing during the: Great War.' Then Uncle Jack aaid ho had been saved by another Englishman, but he had lost his . memory. He had been fanning, and had made plenty of money. A doctor Restored his memory, so ■when ho settled everything, and sold his farm, he sailed homo straight away. It was a tired but happy household that at last went to sleep that night in tho little house. • Korokoro. "BOBBOLINK" (13).